Abstract
It is now well accepted that the medical drugs prescribed by medical specialists both in the past and present have effects as cures for diseases and ailments and have many side effects. Even the safest medicine, such as Panadol, has been observed to exhibit side effects. The current regular medical stream also strongly believes in isolating and characterizing active principles from their natural resources or synthesizing in the pharmaceutical laboratories with the subsequent subjection to clinical tests to qualify as safe for a prescription. The processing involved is very long and highly capital-intensive. That is why the prices of pharmaceuticals are skyrocketing and increasing daily and are getting out of reach of poor folk, particularly in the developing world. These facts form the basis of the current popularity of reversion to traditional medicine that uses herbs, seeds and condiments as natural cures in mixtures. The experts of the regular stream have started accommodating the traditional medical drugs with the reservation that their unknown components may exert side effects translating into intense physiological disorders. Cardamom is claimed to have broad spectrum use as a natural cure and in the prevention of many diseases and ailments such as asthma, depression, cancer, heart, digestive system, heart, and quality of hair. Here, an in-depth inquiry has been lodged to identify and document the side effects of cardamom for the perusal of medical and traditional medicine physicians.
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Abbreviations
- CEO:
-
Cardamom Essential Oil
- PTSD :
-
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- EO :
-
Essential Oil
- PES :
-
Petroleum Ether Soluble
- LDL :
-
Low Density Lipoprotein
- HDL :
-
High Density Lipoprotein
- TM :
-
Transverse Myelitis
- PS :
-
Performance Status
- PI :
-
Principal Investigator
- RCTS:
-
Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials
- HOMA-IR :
-
Homeostatic Model Assessment for Insulin Resistance
- Hba1c :
-
Hemoglobin A1C
- BMI :
-
Body Mass Index
- FBS :
-
Fasting Blood Sugar
- Mets :
-
Metabolic Equivalents
- CHF:
-
Congestive Heart Failure
- ALT:
-
Alanine Transferase
- AST:
-
Aspartate Aminotransferase
- ALP:
-
Alkaline Phosphatase
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Khan, M.R., Aslam, S. (2023). Cardamom Safety. In: Ramadan, M.F. (eds) Cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum): Production, Processing and Properties. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35426-7_17
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